![]() So what did I discover? The short answer to that would be plenty, and that the loose and baggy genre of crime fiction is as riven with pleasures and problems as the loose and baggy genre of science fiction. I Hear the Sirens in the Street by Adrian McKintyīOOK THAT YOU HAVE STARTED BEFORE AND NEVER FINISHED Time by Josephine Tey (read by Paul Young) On Beulah Height by Reginald Hill (ITV June 1999) The Shape of the Ruins by Juan Gabriel VasquezīOOK BY AN AUTHOR YOU HAVE NEVER READ BEFORE You Were Never Really Here by Jonathan Ames I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara ![]() The Fountain in the Forest by Tony White (January 2018) ![]() While in one sense I failed the challenge – I did not manage to read a book in all thirty categories – I consider it a success in that it encouraged me to take in a broader spectrum of crime books than I might otherwise have encountered, all whilst reading a grand total of twenty-four titles overall. I thought this might be a useful and interesting framework for considering crime fiction and so it proved to be. Some of you may remember the Bute Noir crime reading challenge first thrown down by the organisers of Bute Noir way back in January. ![]() In the first of two end-of-year posts I want to talk about my reading of crime fiction in 2018. ![]()
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